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Aram Harrow is an Associate Professor of Physics in the Center for Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Harrow works in Quantum information science and Quantum computing. Together with Avinatan Hassidim and Seth Lloyd he designed a quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations, which in some cases exhibits an exponential advantage over the best classical algorithms. The algorithm has wide application in quantum machine learning.
He is a steering committee member of Quantum Information Processing (QIP), the largest annual conference in the field of Quantum computing. Harrow maintains Scirate, a free and open access scientific collaboration network. He also co-runs a blog, The Quantum Pontiff. His collaborators include Peter Shor and Charles H. Bennett.